Page 4 - How We Got the Bible
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 Most of the prophecy is for this "time of the end" we are living in today. God has shown His Church today the meaning of what many prophets wrote and really desired to understand.
So you see, the entire Bible we have today has been written for us. Let's examine what God says about this special Book He prepared for us.
10. How much of the Bible is inspired by God? 2 Timothy 3:16. What is God's Word described as? John 17:17. What will never happen to God's Word - The Holy Scriptures? John 10:35. Can we absolutely depend upon God's Word? Titus 1:2.
Since the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God, we know it is true. And we can rely upon His Word because God cannot lie.
Maybe you are now wondering how God preserved His inspired Word until today. This is also an interesting story.
The books of the Bible were originally written on long scrolls. There were very few copies since each scroll had to be copied by hand, letter by letter. Imagine how long it would take to write out the entire Bible by hand!
The men whose job it was to copy the books of the Bible from scroll to scroll were called scribes. They were very careful in their work. For thousands of years, through persecution and war, until this very day the Jews have preserved the Hebrew Scriptures (what we know as the Old Testament) as God intended (Romans 3:1-2).
Jesus said, "My words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35) - and they have not passed away. The words of Christ - the New Testament writings - were recorded in Greek. And the Greeks faithfully copied, generation after generation, the New Testament in the very language in which God inspired it to be written.
But God was planning to call people from among all nations to form His Church just before Jesus returns. These people would need their own copies of God's Word in their own language to study daily. Therefore, God stirred up men to translate the Bible into other languages.
Then almost 600 years ago, the printing press was invented. One of the first books ever printed was - you guessed it - the Holy Bible. Now it began to be easier to have one's own copy of the Bible. Since then the technology of printing has advanced to where hundreds of millions of Bibles have been produced, more than any other book in history.
11. Understanding that the Holy Bible we have today was inspired by God and caused to be preserved for us, what does God expect us to do? 2 Timothy 2:15. And what are we to do with this knowledge? James 1:22.
God not only expects us to study the Bible, but also to act on what we learn from His Word so we may understand His wonderful plan for our lives now and for all eternity.
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